AmberWavesoFlame @AmberWavesofFlame@qoto.org
Twitter refugee still learning all the things. She/her, nerd, ADHD, JD, vaxxed, cat staffmember, Open Mind, Open Hearts, Open Doors, unpaid shill for the imperfect. Still pulling for those taco trucks on every corner.
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#SlavaUkraini
#BLM
#NeverTrump
#YIMBY
#Neurodiverse
#ADHD
#law
#gardening
Joined Nov 2022
@andrewblasco@paquita.masto.host thank you.
Eye-opening WaPo gift article, detailing a lawsuit brought in #Texas seeking clarification and guidance on their #abortion statute when it puts #pregnant women in medical danger, as well as raising due process and equal protection concerns on that basis. It’s an op-ed, so the tone is far from neutral, but it is also informative and critically important. No matter where you stand on the personhood of the #unborn, the current state of the law having catastrophic effects.
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Bumblebees Show Off Their Own Puzzle-Solving Culture - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bumblebees-show-off-their-own-puzzle-solving-culture/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
#bees #nature #science
On my desktop, #Mastodon works smoothly, but on my phone, it’s a hassle, and started getting dramatically worse a few days ago.
So I am looking into #app choices to try, on iOS. But there’s a lot! Does anyone have any advice about which I should use or avoid? I see #ivory , #metatext , #icecubes , #mammoth , #tootle , #tooot , #mastoot , #tusker … I do NOT have the energy to try all of that, so any opinions would be useful, please.
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22° halo around the #moon captured with #iphone in #losangeles
I think that’s what it is 🤔???
Re: “Scientists call them 22-degree halos. They bear this name because the radius of the circle around the sun or moon is approximately 22 degrees.
There’s an old weather saying: ring around the moon means rain soon. There’s truth to this saying, because high cirrus clouds often come before a storm. Notice in these photos that the sky looks fairly clear. After all, you can see the sun or moon. And yet halos are a sign of high, thin cirrus clouds drifting 20,000 feet (6 km) or more above our heads.”
https://earthsky.org/space/what-makes-a-halo-around-the-moon/
#nature #photo #photography #naturephotography #sky #moon #space #science #astronomy #art
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How the Washington Post verified its journalists on #Mastodon. https://washpost.engineering/heres-how-the-washington-post-verified-its-journalists-on-mastodon-7b5dbc96985c
#socialmedia #privacy #investigations #warrants #abortion #meta #facebook #google #police #userdata #pharmacies
Police getting help from social media to prosecute people seeking abortions.
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To have a viral post on Mastodon is to be confronted with a long series of people asking the exact same question or providing the same “well actually” response, for days, because of the limits of federation. They simply can’t see those other replies. Sometimes they see *no* ofher replies, if they’re on a tiny server.
The experience isn’t great! As with customer service, it can be hard to remember that this isn’t actually the same person over and over again.
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To have a viral post on Mastodon is to be confronted with a long series of people asking the exact same question or providing the same “well actually” response, for days, because of the limits of federation. They simply can’t see those other replies. Sometimes they see *no* ofher replies, if they’re on a tiny server.
The experience isn’t great! As with customer service, it can be hard to remember that this isn’t actually the same person over and over again.
@cstross social media isn’t in the Bible, either. That line of thought leads to pretty much giving up on technology altogether…
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The physics suggest that a carbon capture technology that uses the ocean might be the only way to make carbon capture economical. There's just much more CO2 per liter of water than per liter of air, and ocean surface is an enormous, effective atmospheric CO2 capture mechanism. So I'm keeping my eye on technologies like this https://medium.com/predict/mit-may-have-just-developed-the-ultimate-climate-technology-37c10791e69b
@maxleibman uggh and try being a pre-menopausal age woman. You get all that toxic positivity PLUS various suggestions implying your feelings are probably PMS and will self-resolve within a few days anyway, so just weather your “bad mood” with some “self-care” and chocolate, gaslight any of your unhappy thoughts so you don’t bring anyone down or irrationally take it out on anyone, and before ya know it you’ll bounce back and realize you were making a big deal out of nothing!
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Leaked audio reveals US rail workers were told to skip inspections as #Ohio crash incites scrutiny to industry
Exclusive: employee says manager told her to stop marking cars for repair, as Ohio #derailment prompts hard look at industry’s record of blocking safety rules
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If you have a parrot and you don’t teach it to say, “help I’ve been turned into a parrot” you’re wasting everyone’s time.
Twitter refugee still learning all the things. She/her, nerd, ADHD, JD, vaxxed, cat staffmember, Open Mind, Open Hearts, Open Doors, unpaid shill for the imperfect. Still pulling for those taco trucks on every corner.
#JinJiyanAzadi
#SlavaUkraini
#BLM
#NeverTrump
#YIMBY
#Neurodiverse
#ADHD
#law
#gardening
Joined Nov 2022
